At her engagement banquet, Shen Zhixia finally understood that as the real heiress who had been brought back, she was nothing more than a tool the Shen family used for a marriage alliance, to take the blame, and to benefit their adopted daughter.
In her previous life, she endured, placated them, and backed down, clinging to family affection and her engagement as though they could save her. In the end, they drained her of everything she was worth and even took the things her mother had left behind.
Reborn on the day of her engagement banquet, Shen Zhixia took the marriage contract Lu Jingheng offered and set it on fire in front of everyone.
This time, she wasn’t getting married.
When the Shen family accused her of being unreasonable, she slapped the property authorization records down on the table.
When the adopted daughter cried that Shen Zhixia was being cruel, she turned around and applied to have the evidence preserved.
When her fiancé urged her to consider the bigger picture, she simply told him to call a lawyer.
Everyone thought she was just throwing a tantrum and waited for her to come crawling back home.
But they didn’t know that, starting at that engagement banquet, Shen Zhixia had begun piecing together the truth, one step at a time: her mother’s belongings, an old keychain, the power of attorney for the assets, and the truth buried for years.
Later, the Shen family fell into chaos, the Lu family panicked, and those who had once been certain she couldn’t live without them begged her to come back, their eyes red with tears.
Shen Zhixia looked at the marriage contract, now reduced to ashes, and calmly said:
“I didn’t come back to make peace with you.”
“I came back to take back, one by one, everything you owe me.”
